Compose tips

This site allows HTML content. While learning all of HTML may feel intimidating, learning how to use a very small number of the most basic HTML "tags" is very easy. This table provides examples for each tag that is enabled on this site.

For more information see W3C's HTML Specifications or use your favorite search engine to find other sites that explain HTML.

By default line break tags are automatically added, so use this tag to add additional ones. Use of this tag is different because it is not used with an open/close pair like all the others. Use the extra " /" inside the tag to maintain XHTML 1.0 compatibility

Text with <br />line break

Text with line break

No help provided for tag img.

Emphasized

<em>Emphasized</em>

Emphasized

Strong

<strong>Strong</strong>

Strong

No help provided for tag cit.

Coded text used to show programming source code

<code>Coded</code>

Coded

Unordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ul>

First item

Second item

Ordered list - use the <li> to begin each list item

<ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> </ol>

First item

Second item

Definition lists are similar to other HTML lists. <dl> begins the definition list, <dt> begins the definition term and <dd> begins the definition description.

If you do encounter problems, try using HTML character entities. A common example looks like &amp; for an ampersand & character. For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page. Some of the available characters include:

Character Description

You Type

You Get

Ampersand

&amp;

&

Greater than

&gt;

>

Less than

&lt;

<

Quotation mark

&quot;

"

Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

Lines and paragraphs are automatically recognized. The <br /> line break, <p> paragraph and </p> close paragraph tags are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized simply add a couple blank lines.

You may use [block:module=delta] tags to display the contents of block delta for module module. To discover module names and deltas, visit admin/build/block and hover over a block's configure link and look in your browser's status bar. The last "word" you see is the name of the module and the number following that is the delta. If you leave off the delta in an Insert Block tag, the default delta will be used.